{"id":7687,"date":"2014-05-06T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2014-05-06T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:01:29","slug":"new-spacex-falcon-9-model-rocket-more-about-littlebits-spacekit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7687","title":{"rendered":"New SpaceX Falcon 9 model rocket + More about LittleBits SpaceKit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> has added a new model rocket kit based on the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/falcon9\" target=\"_blank\">Falcon 9<\/a> rocket design:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.spacex.com\/featured\/falcon-9-and-dragon-flying-model-rocket-kit.html\" target=\"_d\">Falcon 9 and Fairing Flying Model Rocket Kit &#8211; Featured<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Falcon9AndFairingModelKit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7692\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=7692\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Falcon9AndFairingModelKit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"130,365\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Falcon9AndFairingModelKit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Falcon9AndFairingModelKit.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7692\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Falcon9AndFairingModelKit-106x300.jpg\" alt=\"Falcon9AndFairingModelKit\" width=\"106\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>I recently wrote about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7505\" target=\"_d\">LittleBits SpaceKit: <em>Assemble your own space program<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that allows you to assembly many types of fun space-inspired gadgets from a set of electronic modules. Here&#8217;s an article about the SpaceKit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/25755-littlebits-space-kit-nasa.html\" target=\"_d\">Build a Spacecraft at Home with NASA-Approved Space Kit &#8211;\u00a0Space.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XnEhVqAdsqo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has added a new model rocket kit based on the latest Falcon 9 rocket design:\u00a0Falcon 9 and Fairing Flying Model Rocket Kit &#8211; Featured === I recently wrote about the\u00a0LittleBits SpaceKit: Assemble your own space program\u00a0that allows you to assembly many types of fun space-inspired gadgets from a set of electronic modules. Here&#8217;s an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New SpaceX Falcon 9 model rocket + More about LittleBits SpaceKit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-rocketry","category-space-models"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1ZZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12766,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12766","url_meta":{"origin":7687,"position":0},"title":"Paper modeling of Elon Musk and his Falcon 9 and Model S","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the paper models for both the Tesla Model S and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket plus Elon Musk himself:\u00a0Tesla-S and Falcon 9 models\u00a0-\u00a0AXM Paper Space Scale Models Blog\u00a0-","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Models&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Models","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tesla, SpaceX Falcon 9, Musk paper models","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image7.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17125,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17125","url_meta":{"origin":7687,"position":1},"title":"Video: First flight of BPS Space&#8217;s Falcon Heavy model rocket","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I've posted a few times about Joe Barnard's scale model rocket projects that seek to emulate realistically the takeoff and landing characteristics of SpaceX rockets. 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